5/28/2009 The newly-launched site NYC Mugged, dedicated to quality coffee in New York, is yet another example that New York’s specialty coffee scene is flourishing. The site offers a searchable database of coffee locations, reviews and short features, like where to find a cup of Stumptown, which made its East Coast debut last year. Even […]
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LBC FILE PHOTO 5/23/2009 While at Williams-Sonoma today, looking at things I want but can’t afford, I was surprised to see that they just started offering a selection of whole-bean roasted coffee from the well regarded Vancouver-based 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters. This is good news for Stamford, which is still without a real independent coffee […]
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FETTE SAU: 354 METROPOLITAN AVE., WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN 5/23/2009 At Fette Sau [German for fat pig], after you jockey for some precious real estate at one of the long picnic tables in the dining room or on the patio out front, you head for the long line at the counter. Here you order your barbecue by […]
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5/21/2009 1. According to Barcelona Wine Bar’s twitter feed, they are set to open next Thursday. I walked by today and didn’t see much activity, but I understand they are more or less ready to go. 2. Mary Ann’s Mexican restaurant is open, though I’m still a little skeptical, but that is probably just West-Coast […]
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5/17/2009 Check out Stamford Talk for a post about Ruth Reichl, the editor of Gourmet and former chief restaurant critic for the New York Times, speaking at an annual Darien Community Association event on Thursday. I caught her lecture at the Columbia J-School earlier this year and she had some interesting things to say about […]
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ABOVE: A sausage and cherry pepper pie at Colony Grill. 5/17/2009 The guys at the Stamford Pizza Tour blog seem to take pizza pretty seriously, so I was shocked [shocked, I tell you!] to find out that after they reviewed twenty-odd pizzerias in Stamford, Colony Grill was not among those chosen. I assumed this transgression […]
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5/16/2009 As previously noted on the LBC, I really wish I could have attended a food forum in Hartford this week featuring none other than foodie goddess Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain [insert leather jacket/cocaine reference here] and Duff Goldman, of Ace of Cakes fame. Unfortunately, the event was sold out and they were even selling […]
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